I  love presidential history…always have, and always will.  And when I did my first “report” on the Kennedy in 5th grade, I remember my grandmother telling me about how vividly she remembered the very place she was when she heard Walter Cronkite report his death.  He was one of the first to be in the White House, live on TV and Radio as President Truman escorted him, along with two other network news reporters on a tour of the then, newly refurbished White House.

He was and is the man whom Americans trusted the most…may he rest in peace.

Here’s his famous and touching report of the news of Kennedy’s death on that fateful day in November of 1963.

“And that’s the way it was…”